Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) punched a U.S. Capitol Police officer today after he mistakenly pursued her for failing to pass through a metal detector.

This little fracas happened earlier today in Dallas, as WFAA reporter Brett Shipp tried entering Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Prices’s county office. That office is, of course, public property. But Price’s aide first tried keeping Shipp from entering, then Price himself gives the reporter a hard shove to keep him out. Shipp argues, quite reasonably, that the county commissioner’s office is public property.

A Facebook dispute boiled over into real life on Monday when a Democrat drove over to another man's home and shot him. Brian Sebring, 44, of Tampa, Florida, was arrested for shooting Alex Stephens, 46, also of Tampa, in the thigh and buttocks after their online disagreement.

Police say the row began when the two men disagreed over politics on Facebook, and Stephens reportedly began sending Sebring 'explicit messages and threats'. In response, Sebring armed himself with an AR-15 and a Glock and drove over to Stephens' house in Wallace Ave - just two miles away from his own home, the Tampa Bay Times reports.

During their meeting, Sam Pernick, president of the Young Democrats of Michigan, and other Sanders supporters—who nearly outnumbered the rest of the attendees at the meeting—protested the lack of transparency and openness exercised by the Michigan Democratic Party, which rigged the DNC delegate nomination process behind closed doors.

Michigan Democratic Party officials responded with force. Pernick and several others were nearly dragged out of the meeting. Pernick is pursuing charges, and the Westland Police Department recently issued Mike Stone, a senior Michigan Democratic Party official, a ticket for assault and battery.

Kevin Johnson, the mayor of Sacramento, Calif., and a former NBA star, repeatedly punched a protester in the face after getting hit with a pie during an event, witnesses say... Some sources said the protester, later identified as 32-year-old Sean Thompson, was beaten to a "bloody pulp."

California's other Democratic senator, Barbara Boxer, said Sanders supporters should attempt "to change the primary process, but not to go out there and throw chairs and to put people's lives in danger..." Boxer said she felt threatened after outbursts and threats at the Nevada Democratic Convention from supporters of Sanders over the weekend. "I feared for my safety and I had a lot of security around me," she told CNN's Kate Bolduan on "At This Hour." "I've never had anything like this happen."

An Indiana councilman facing murder and federal drug charges was re-elected Tuesday after running unopposed. East Chicago 3rd District Councilman Robert “Coop” Battle, a Democrat, spent Election Day in the Lake County Jail pending a murder charge for the Oct. 12 shooting death of Reimundo Camarillo Jr., the Munster Times reported. He also faces a federal drug charge after police say they found more than 73 pounds of marijuana and more than $100,000 cash during a Porter County traffic stop, the Times reported. Mr. Battle’s attorney, John Cantrell, said he plans to keep his client informed about council business while he is in jail.

Baltimore City Police arrested an aide to Rep. Sander M. Levin, D-Mich., at around 2:30 a.m. on Oct. 8 for criminal domestic violence charges. Tim Foster, a native of Henderson, Ky., brutally beat his male lover with a small black and red shovel, according to a police report obtained by CQ Roll Call...

Foster put his boyfriend in a choke hold and stated, “I want to kill you. Die dirty faggy,” the man later told police...

Foster lunged at his boyfriend with the knife. But Foster’s wife “got in the way” and the knife then fell to the floor, the report states.

A New Jersey Democratic official was caught on video punching a 75-year-old veteran who is blind in the face on June 2. “I hear this rumbling, ‘Where the blank is Bill Graves? I’m gonna kick his butt!’” Army veteran Bill Graves told WABC... Graves was attacked by LeRoy Jones, chairman of the Essex County Democratic Committee.

Democrat, Former Senior Ohio Lawmaker In Action...

Mason was arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the death of his estranged wife, Aisha Fraser Mason, at his home on Chagrin Boulevard near Normandy Road, the sources said...

Mason in August 2014 punched his then-wife 20 times and slammed her head against the dashboard of his car five times, breaking her orbital bone.

The couple's children were in the back of the car when the attack occurred.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) abruptly ended a town hall event Thursday evening after a former state lawmaker threw a jar of Vaseline at him. Former state Rep. Joanne Twomey (D) missed LePage with the petroleum jelly. She was immediately escorted out of the auditorium by security and LePage ended the event, which had been intended to sell his budget plan.

A former Democratic congressional aide has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing two women who were under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The Washington Post (http://tinyurl.com/kcvclzk) reports that 37-year-old Donny Ray Williams pleaded guilty Tuesday in D.C. Superior Court. Williams had served as a staff director for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee.

Both of the assaults occurred in 2010. Prosecutors say Williams invited a colleague to his apartment, where he spiked her drink with a sleep aid and raped the woman while she was asleep. Prosecutors plan to seek a suspended prison term and five years of supervised probation.

A former Democratic congressional aide pleaded guilty Tuesday to sexually assaulting two women in 2010. Donny Ray Williams Jr., 37, who served as a staff director for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee, pleaded guilty to third-degree sexual abuse, two misdemeanor counts of sexual abuse and one count of misdemeanor threats.

Florida Democrat Alan Grayson is under investigation for domestic violence according to a statement from Capt. Angelo Nieves of Florida's Orange County Sheriff's Office. Along with submitting pictures which reportedly support the allegations, Grayson's wife also alleges that Grayson told her he would leave her "In the gutter" with nothing in the presence of the couple's young children. Grayson co-sponsored the 2013 re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act.

Yesterday the Massachusetts state house voted, 146–5, to expel Representative Carlos Henriquez, a Democrat who was convicted in January of assaulting a woman... The misdemeanor convictions in question are two counts of assault and battery: The jury found that Henriquez had held down his girlfriend at the time and punched her repeatedly in the chest after she refused to have sex with him...

Photographs of Gonzalves’s injuries were displayed outside the house chamber during the vote. Members said they “showed multiple black-and-blue marks on her chest, torso and arms,” according to the Boston Globe’s account.

"I took a lot of punches to the head so I can’t really remember who was hitting me," Omar said on Wednesday morning of the attack, which left her with a bloodied lip. "I was trying to get my face not scratched off.” “The first one hurt really bad. I could not see for a good couple of seconds,” she added.

Inmate lawmaker Rep. Carlos Henriquez is doing his Beacon Hill business from his Billerica jail cell, thumbing through bills and budget proposals, and speaking to staff by phone “at least once a day,” according to the disgraced Dorchester Democrat’s legislative aide. “We’ve been in regular contact with him, and at this point he’s concerned with the issues of the district,” aide Jessica DaSilva told the Herald...Henriquez is serving a six-month sentence there after a jury convicted him Jan. 15 for the July 2012 assault and battery of a woman he was dating... Each call carries a $2.50 connection charge, costs 10 cents a minute and is limited to 15 minutes, the Middlesex jail spokesman said.

Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, driven from office by sexual harassment allegations, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a felony and two misdemeanors for unwanted physical contact with three women at public events.... The felony involved a woman restrained against her will at a fundraiser. The misdemeanors involved a woman who was kissed without permission and a woman whose buttocks were grabbed. The victims were identified only as Jane Does. The plea deal also requires mental health treatment.

A Democratic state lawmaker says some of his colleagues told him to keep quiet allegations of sexual harassment and assault against a fellow legislator to protect the party's majority in upcoming elections. After WFPL News reported the accusations against state Rep. John Arnold, D-Sturgis, early Wednesday, Rep. Tom Riner, D-Louisville, took to the House floor to speak out against what he described as a culture of intimidation and sexism in the legislature.

Newly elected state Rep. Christina Ayala tried to talk police out of arresting her on domestic violence charges Monday night after she slapped her boyfriend for cheating on her... The arrest also raised questions about whether Ayala, a Democrat who was overwhelmingly elected to the 128th District seat, actually lives in her district. The 49 Hillside Avenue address where the incident occurred is not located in the 128th House district, but in the 129th district.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is expressing regret after he threatened to punch out a reporter who asked about problems in the government's wild horse program at a campaign event. His press office said Tuesday that Salazar regrets the exchange on Nov. 6 while on a Colorado tour in support of President Obama's re-election.

A former Democratic staffer on Capitol Hill who briefly worked in the Obama administration has been accused of "drugging and sexually assaulting women," the Washington Post reports: A former senior congressional aide was indicted this week in D.C. Superior Court on charges that he sexually assaulted two women after drugging them with a sedative that he allegedly put in their drinks.... A third woman made similar allegations against Williams, attorneys and Williams said, and a fourth woman said that he threatened her. As a result of that fourth allegation, Williams was indicted on one count of threatening to injure or kidnap a person.

ALBANY — An insurgent Democrat who could help tip the state Senate’s balance of power once broke a man’s nose in a bar fight. Witnesses told cops at the time that Albany County legislator, Shawn Morse, then 22 years old, also hurled an obscenity at a bar waitress and falsely claimed he was a cop in the 1989 brawl near Albany.

Rebecca Burgin, a long-time former girlfriend of former North Carolina Democratic Party executive director Jay Parmley, told The Daily Caller that she believes Parmley infected her with HIV. Parmley resigned on April 15 amid sexual harassment allegations from a former young male staffer. Burgin, a 29-year-old Oklahoman, has shared her story with TheDC, including the revelation that Parmley’s lawyer offered her health coverage, paid for by the Democratic National Committee, to manage her illness.

ANCHOR: Independent attorneys looking into alleged ethics violations by a Tucson lawmaker say that Daniel Patterson has to go. Once a Democrat, Patterson changed his party affiliation from Democrat to Independent today. REPORTER: A 33-page report by the ethics committee investigators goes far beyond the domestic violence incident that led to the ethics complaint against Rep. Patterson. Investigators’ allegations are sweeping, startling, and even scary.

Boise Police arrested Cynthia Clinkingbeard, 58, Boise, on Friday after she reportedly walked into a store at Eagle Road and Chinden Boulevard and threatened employees with a gun. The website of the Idaho Secretary of State lists Clinkingbeard as a Democratic candidate in the May 15 primary race for the First District congressional seat.

In June 1999, Mary Moran (née Craig) called Alexandria Police claiming that her husband had hit her. Her husband was, of course, Congressman and former mayor of Alexandria (1985-1990) Jim Moran. Notably, Moran ran for mayor after 2 years as Vice Mayor — a position he was forced to resign as part of a plea deal on bribery charges...

Perhaps the bigger and more damning question, tellingly illustrated by this photograph as well as the YouTube video, is why does Coakley, as the highest law enforcement official for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, seemingly countenance an assault and battery incident perpetrated by one of her operatives?

"If one person criticizes them or says one more thing, including the president of the United States, he will hear from me," she said on ABC's "This Week." "One more word about it after this show airs, and I might likely have to punch him. Literally."

This little fracas happened earlier today in Dallas, as WFAA reporter Brett Shipp tried entering Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Prices’s county office. That office is, of course, public property. But Price’s aide first tried keeping Shipp from entering, then Price himself gives the reporter a hard shove to keep him out. Shipp argues, quite reasonably, that the county commissioner’s office is public property.

UPDATE: More details on the incident: It involved a beer bottle, which Monserrate allegedly used to cut his girlfriend, Karla Giraldo, 30, in or around her left eye so badly that she required 20 to 40 stiches.

Just yesterday, Monserrate, a soon-to-be-ex Councilman, was hailed by his Council colleagues on what was his last day at City Hall.

In September, Monserrate won an uncontested primary for the seat once held by former Sen. John Sabini, who had own run-in with the law (he was arrested for drunken driving in Albany).

Queens DA Richard Brown just announced that grand jury has returned a six-count indictment against Sen. Hiram Monserrate for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend, Karla Giraldo, at his Jackson Heights apartment last December.

A Nevada state lawmaker briefly jailed last month on suspicion of leveling a death threat against the speaker of the state Assembly was arrested on Sunday after police claimed he attacked a member of his family.

Democratic Assemblyman Steven Brooks, 40, was taken into custody outside his Las Vegas home shortly after midnight local time and booked into a detention center on suspicion of domestic battery and obstructing officers, Las Vegas city police said in a statement.